The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace

Horace (trans. John Conington) · c. 23 BCE primary

passage 55 of 64 · BOOK I.

↪ you wandered here via “patronage relationship with Maecenas” — the connecting lines are tinted below

I, whom you call Your friend, Maecenas.

With Ritter I have rendered according to the interpretation which makes dilecte Maecenas' address to Horace; but it is a choice of evils.

And lords of land Affect the sea.

Terrae of course goes with fastidiosus, not with dominus. Mine is a loose rendering, not a false interpretation.

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace · Horace (trans. John Conington) · 23–13 BCE